Samantha Julka: Let’s help employees take a (mental) load off
One second I might be contemplating my laundry pile and the next taking a deep dive into why sales are down this quarter.
In the Workplace
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Kim and Todd Saxton: Observing lessons from a 111-year-old failure
What many people don’t realize is that the Titanic was the White Star Line’s solution to a hyper-competitive market—its own form of disruption.
Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow: How to balance risks, rewards of transparency
Transparency in the workplace can be a double-edge sword that cuts both ways.
Ilya Rekhter: Proposed tax on Bitcoin mining is bad business
The power consumption for this process is no joke, which is why the proposed 30% tax will effectively force all American-based companies overseas.
Kristen Cooper: Women-owned and women-led companies aren’t the same
A “women-led” company might have several women in charge making important strategic decisions on a daily basis; however, those female leaders don’t have enough equity in the company to control a board/investor-level vote.
Angie Stocklin: How open-book management helped us successfully pivot
Major company transitions take time, and I won’t pretend this rollout was quick and painless, but open-book management soon became an integral part of our company culture and was an additional layer of activating our core values, such as, “Act like an owner.”
Mandy Haskett: Leadership development shouldn’t just focus on leaders
Factors like toxic culture, bottlenecks, a lack of strategic clarity, lack of diversity, or cross-functional conflict act as organizational barriers that stifle your good people’s impact.
Tiffany Sauder: Break your hiring process to make it better
It’s easy for urgency to overpower the realization that hiring is one of the most important things we do as leaders. Going fast and on your gut serves no one.
Mark Caswell: When and how to reorganize the right way
The best (and only) use case for a reorganization is to solve a specific business problem.
Kim and Todd Saxton: The power of inflection points in your venture journey
Losing a key team member or a major customer, or having a product fail in the field, can lead to significant declines in revenue, customer trust and optimism.
Gallup: Just 2 in 10 U.S. employees have work ‘best friend’
The Gallup survey found a strong link between workers with best friends on the job and profitability, safety, inventory control and retention.
Garrett Mintz: Generous PTO can’t overcome lack of leadership
Overall, it seems there isn’t one work culture that is better than others. However, to be in the best work situation, I believe it starts and ends with having great leadership.
Ilya Rekhter: Success is more than having a great idea
If an idea is truly great, someone has likely thought of it before but might have hit a roadblock or moved on to something else. The real opportunity lies in overcoming those initial obstacles and finding product-market fit.
Samatha Julka: As leaders, we must be aware of unintended impact
My colleagues’ intention was to help, but the impact was hurt feelings.
Angie Stocklin: How do you activate your core values? Here’s an example
The constant stream of small bites made the core value tangible and kept it at the top of our team’s mind, while the leadership team’s participation in these activities signaled importance to the rest of the team.
Kristen Cooper: Success can—and should—be whatever you want
We benchmark ourselves by those who have been extended different opportunities and privileges. Yet, too often, we feel shame and disappointment for not achieving what our peers have accomplished.
Mandy Haskett: Here’s a tool to help take control of challenges
When things feel challenging, it’s important to recall how that emotion shapes (and sometimes skews) our reality.
Tiffany Sauder: Drop perfection. Instead, seek vulnerability.
As a young businesswoman, I put an enormous amount of pressure on myself to be perfect. Perfectly prepared. Perfectly dressed. Perfectly presented. Perfectly on time.
Samantha Julka: As leaders, we need to better promote relational work
Organizations push high volumes of personal (focus) and transactional (collaborative) work, often at the expense of relational (connection) work. And it’s gotten worse since the pandemic.
Kim & Todd Saxton: A successful pitch isn’t always about money
Entrepreneurs have to constantly pitch different things to different people at different stages in the life of their ventures.